Andreas Zimmermann (legal scholar)

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Andreas Zimmermann (born June 18, 1961 in Tübingen ) is a German international lawyer . From 2001 to 2009 he was director of the Walther Schücking Institute for International Law at the Christian Albrechts University in Kiel . Since October 2009 he has been Professor of Public Law , especially Europe and international law and European Business Law and International Economic Law at the University of Potsdam .

Life

After graduating from high school in Tübingen in 1980 , Zimmermann studied law from 1980 to 1986 at the Law Faculty of the Eberhard-Karls-Universität Tübingen , the Université de Droit, d'Économie et des Sciences d'Aix-Marseille III , Aix-en-Provence and at from the Academy of International Law , The Hague , and passed the first state examination in law as the best in his class. In 1989, after completing his community service and doing research with Hans von Mangoldt, he earned a master's degree at Harvard Law School . In 1992 he passed the second state examination in law after his assistantship at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law in Heidelberg. Afterwards he was a scientific advisor at the MPI under the direction of Jochen Abr until 1994 . Frowein . He also supervised the dissertation submitted in 1994, which, from a constitutional and international law perspective, dealt with the limits and requirements of the then new fundamental right to asylum. He was a speaker at the MPI until his habilitation in 1999. His work is entitled State Succession in International Treaties .

From 2001 to 2009, Zimmermann was professor of public law , with a focus on international law , European law and general political science, and director of the Walther Schücking Institute for international law at the Christian Albrechts University in Kiel. In 2009 he followed a call to the University of Potsdam in connection with the director's position of the Human Rights Center at the University of Potsdam. Eckart Klein previously held both positions until his retirement .

Andreas Zimmermann is married.

Functions

Zimmermann was visiting professor at various universities; u. a. at the Michigan School of Law , Ann Arbor ( Michigan ), the Law School of the University of Copenhagen , the University of Tartu ( Estonia ) and the University of Johannesburg .

After being an advisor to the German negotiating delegation for the creation of the International Criminal Court , from 1999 to 2001 he was a member of the expert commission for the drafting of the International Criminal Code .

Since 2001 he has been a mediator according to the Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties and a member of the specialist committee "Humanitarian International Law" of the German Red Cross .

Zimmermann was and is counsel several times in proceedings before the International Court of Justice in The Hague. He was also ad hoc judge at the European Court of Human Rights several times .

He is a member of the UN political and international law advisory boards of the Foreign Office and the Permanent Court of Arbitration in The Hague.

At the end of August 2018, Zimmermann was elected to the United Nations Human Rights Committee.

Web links

Commons : Andreas Zimmermann  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Federal Foreign Office press release of August 29, 2018 , accessed on August 30, 2018
personal data
SURNAME Zimmermann, Andreas
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German international lawyer and professor at the University of Potsdam
DATE OF BIRTH June 18, 1961
PLACE OF BIRTH Tübingen